Democracy Activism
While being a lifelong practicing Christian, Kilgour has worked on issues inter-faith dialog, personal freedoms, and democratic government throughout his career. In Parliament, he was active in prayer-groups while at venues and publications across the country he has spoken specifically on religious themes and politics. Commonly, his topics have been on global religious and political persecutions. Currently, he serves as: a fellow of the Queen's University Centre for the Study of Democracy; a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD), and co-chair of the Canadian Friends of a Democratic Iran and has recently hosted a Iran pro-democracy rally attended by approximately 90,000 in France in 2009.
His personal religious beliefs did land him in the news in 2003 when he abstained from the same-sex marriage bill and was reprimanded by then Prime Minister Chrétien.
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